Intel and Samsung were experts at the accusation of Qualcomm in unfair competition

POSTER:computer news || INTEL AND SAMSUNG WERE EXPERTS AT THE ACCUSATION OF QUALCOMM IN UNFAIR COMPETITION

DATE:2017-05-14

In January, regulators in the United States came out against Qualcomm. Earlier, Qualcomm paid billions in fines in China and South Korea. In all cases, the company is accused of unfair competition, which infringed the rights of local developers and manufacturers of SoC and separately modems for cellular communications. Shortly after the investigation by the US International Trade Commission (FTC), Apple filed suit against Qualcomm, wishing to collect about $ 1 billion from it. In May, in continuation of the dispute between Apple and Qualcomm, the company from Cupertino stopped paying royalties for the company from San Francisco, Diego.

At the end of the week it became known that in the investigation of the Federal Commission of violations of Qualcomm took an active part of the company Samsung and Intel. Each of them has claims to the defendant and both of them acted as "court friends" or, in other words, experts. With Intel everything is simple. It develops and sells cellular modems that have already registered in Apple smartphones. Obviously, Qualcomm tried to prevent this, because Intel called the competitor's policy "spider network of unauthorized patents" (an interlocking web of abusive patent). This practice, according to Intel, hinders the development of the industry .

With Samsung everything is more complicated. It manufactures smartphones based on Qualcomm's component base and produces SoC on orders from this company. But Samsung complains that Qualcomm intentionally slows down with a license to produce cellular modems and integrated solutions with their use. This directly led to the fact that the company does not have the right to sell Exynos processors. It is allowed to use Exynos only for own needs. Samsung regularly tries to agree with Qualcomm on licensing its own products, but the case has not yet moved from the dead end. Therefore Samsung is ready to appear in court as an expert against Qualcomm.